• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/bɑː/
• (General American)enPR:bär,IPA^(key):/bɑɹ/,[bɑɹ],[bɑ˞]
• (General Australian)IPA^(key):/baː/

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• Rhymes:-ɑː(ɹ)
• Homophones:baa,bah(in some pronunciations)

FromMiddle Englishbarre, fromOld Frenchbarre(“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), fromVulgar Latin*barra, of uncertain origin.Doublet ofbarre.

bar (countable anduncountable,pluralbars)

1. Asolid, more or lessrigid object of metal or wood with a uniformcross-section smaller than itslength.

   The window was protected by steelbars.

2. (countable,uncountable,metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round,square,hexagonal,octagonal orrectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called astrip.

   Ancient Sparta used ironbars instead of handy coins in more valuable alloy, to physically discourage the use of money.

   We are expecting a carload ofbar tomorrow.

3. Acuboid piece of any solidcommodity.

   bar of chocolate

   bar of soap

4. A broadshaft,band, orstripe.

   abar of light

   abar of colour

5. A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in abar code or abar chart.
6. (typography) Any of variouslines used aspunctuation ordiacritics, such as thepipe ⟨|⟩,fraction bar (as in12), andstrikethrough (as in Ⱥ),formerly(obsolete) includingobliquemarks such as theslash.

   Hyponyms:pipe,strikethrough,macron

7. (mathematics) Thesign indicating that thecharacteristic of alogarithm isnegative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to thecharacteristic only and not to themantissa.
8. (physics) A similar sign indicating that thecharge on aparticle is thenegative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact anantiparticle).
10. Abusiness sellingalcoholicdrinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; apublic house.

    Synonyms:barroom,ginshop,(British)pub,public house,tavern;see alsoThesaurus:pub

    The street was lined with all-nightbars.

12. Thecounter of such premises.

    Synonym:wet bar

    Step up to thebar and order a drink.

13. A counter, or simply acabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
14. (by extension, in combination) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.

    coffeebar; juicebar

15. Aninformal establishment sellingfood to beconsumed on the premises.

    a burgerbar

    a local fishbar

16. An establishment offeringcosmetic services.

    a nailbar; a browbar

17. Anofficialorder orpronouncement that prohibits some activity.

    Synonyms:ban,prohibition

    The club has lifted itsbar on women members.

18. Anything thatobstructs,hinders, orprevents; anobstruction; abarrier.
    • 1675,John Dryden,Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London:[…] T[homas] N[ewcomb] forHenry Herringman, […], published1676,→OCLC, Act V,page83:

      Muſt I newbars to my own joy create?

    • 1987 February 1, Nancy A. Coleman, “Foster Care: Case By Case Basis”, inGay Community News, volume14, number28, page 5:

      Sexual preference or orientation shall not be abar to becoming a foster parent.

    • 2013, Terence Dillon,A Long Way Home, page184:

      Mr Harding could look back on his initial judgement of Paul's talent with great satisfaction while Paul could reflect that to be Irish was not necessarily abar to progress.

20. (programming, derived fromfubar)Ametasyntactic variablerepresenting anunspecifiedentity, often the second in a series, followingfoo.

    Suppose we have four objects,foo,bar,baz andquux.

21. (UK, Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in thechamber of alegislature beyond which onlymembers andofficials may pass.
22. (UK,law) Therailing surrounding the part of acourtroom in which thejudges,lawyers,defendants andwitnesses stay.
23. (US,Philippines,law, usually withthe) Thebar exam, thelegallicensingexam.

    He's studying hard to passthe Bar this time; he's failed it twice before.

24. (law,metonymic, "the Bar", "the bar") Collectively,lawyers or thelegalprofession; specifically applied tobarristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.

    He was called tothe bar. ―He became abarrister.

25. (telecommunications,electronics) One of an array of bar-shapedsymbols that display thelevel of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.

    I don't have anybars in the middle of this desert.

26. (music) A vertical line across a musicalstaff dividing writtenmusic into sections, typically of equal durational value.
27. (music) One of those musicalsections.

    Synonym:measure

28. (sports) Ahorizontalpole that must be crossed in thehigh jump andpole vault.
29. (figurative) Any level ofachievement regarded as achallenge to beovercome.
30. (soccer, most codes) Thecrossbar.
    • 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, inBBC‎^[2]:

      Composed play then saw Sam Ricketts nutmeg Ashley Cole before Taylor whipped a fine curling effort over Petr Cech'sbar.

31. (backgammon) Thecentraldivider between the inner and outertable of abackgammonboard, wherestones are placed if they arehit.
32. An addition to amilitarymedal, on account of a subsequent act.
34. (geography,nautical,hydrology) Aridge orsuccession of ridges ofsand or othersubstance; especially:
    2. Alinearshoalinglandform feature within abody of water; aformation extending across themouth of ariver orharbor or off abeach, and which mayobstructnavigation. (FM 55-501).

       Synonym:bank

       Hyponym:sandbar

       • 1868, “Route 20:London to Tiflis[…]”, inHandbook for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland, 2nd edition, London: John Murray,page320:

         Travellers change at Batoum into a steamer which performs the service between that port and Poti, and which has a less draught of water to enable it to cross thebar of the river Rion.

35. (heraldry) One of theordinaries inheraldry; a diminutive of afess.

    Coordinate terms:barrulet,closet

36. Acitygate, in some British place names.

    TempleBar, London

37. (mining) Adrilling ortampingrod.
38. (mining) Avein ordike crossing alode.
39. (architecture) Agatehouse of acastle or fortified town.
40. (farriery) The part of thecrust of a horse'shoof which is bentinwards towards thefrog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of thesole.
41. (farriery, in theplural) The space between thetusks andgrinders in the upperjaw of ahorse, in which thebit is placed.
42. (slang) A measure ofdrugs, typically oneounce.
    • 1994 [1993],Irvine Welsh, “The First Shag in Ages”, inTrainspotting, London: Minerva,→ISBN,page151:

      Tell Sick Boy tae gie us a bell if ye see um. The bastard owes us twenty fuckinbar.

43. (recreational drugs) A small, tablet-shaped dose ofXanax, typically containing two milligrams and able to be split into quarters.
44. (slang, hip-hop) Acomplimentary reference to a rapper'slyrics, especially when good.

    That rapper there, yeah, he gotbars.

• (heraldry): Ordinary on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at[3]

FromMiddle Englishbarren, fromOld Frenchbarrer,^[1] fromMedieval Latinbarrare(“to bar”), from the noun. Cognate toOccitanbarrar,Spanishbarrar,Portuguesebarrar.

Preposition properly imperative of the verb. Comparebarring.

bar (third-person singular simple presentbars,present participlebarring,simple past and past participlebarred)

2. (transitive) Toobstruct thepassage of (someone or something).

   Our way wasbarred by a huge rockfall.

   • 1906 August,Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, inPoems, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., published October 1906,→OCLC, part 1, stanza V,page47:

     'One kiss, my bonny sweetheart, I'm after a prize to-night, / But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light; / Yet, if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day, / Then look for me by moonlight, / Watch for me by moonlight, / I'll come to thee by moonlight, though Hell shouldbar the way.'

3. (transitive) Toprohibit.

   I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had beenbarred.

4. (transitive) Tolock orbolt with a bar.

   tobar the door

5. To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
   • 1899 February,Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, inBlackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […],→OCLC, part I,page208, column 1:

     I lived in a hut in the yard. To be out of the chaos I would sometimes get into the accountant’s office. It was built of horizontal planks, and so badly put together that, as he bent over his high desk, he wasbarred from neck to heels with narrow strips of sunlight.

• (obstruct):block,hinder,obstruct
• (prohibit):ban,interdict,prohibit
• (lock or bolt with a bar):
• See alsoThesaurus:hinder

• → Esperanto:bari

bar

1. Except,other than,besides.

   Synonyms:apart from,barring,except for,excepting,excluding,other than,save;see alsoThesaurus:except

   He invited everyone to his weddingbar his ex-wife.

   • 1936,F.J. Thwaites, chapter I, inThe Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, page 5:

     "I might be a fool," the younger man admitted quietly, "even an idiot, but there's not a person living,bar you, who possess the courage to call me a weakling, Sir."

   • 2019 October, Philip Sherratt, “Midland Main Line upgrade presses on”, inModern Railways, page62:

     These see the overhead wires installed on allbar the slow lines between Bedford and Wellingborough by next May, with the remaining section completed by August, when the full programme is due to be completed.

2. (horse racing)Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.

   Leg At Each Corner is at 3/1, Lost My Shirt 5/1, and it's 10/1bar.

• bar none
• all over bar the shouting

• William Dwight Whitney andBenjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “bar”, inThe Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumesI (A–C), New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC,page446.

Borrowed fromAncient Greekβάρος(báros,“weight”), coined circa 1900.

bar (pluralbars)

1. A non-SIunit ofpressure equal to 100,000pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.

• ㍴

• isobar

•  Bar (unit) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
•  Bar in the 1920 edition ofEncyclopedia Americana.

• Rab,Bra,ABR,bra,arb,Arb.,ARB,abr.,RBA

• IPA^(key):/ˈbʌɾ/
• Hyphenation:bar

bár m (plural baritté f)

1. night
2. age

• bartikimbir
• bartikimbiró

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “bar”, inAn Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London,→ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015)L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[4], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

FromDutchbar.

• IPA^(key):[bɑɾ]

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bar (attributivebarre,comparativebarder,superlativebarste)

1. barren

• 2007.The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

• IPA^(key):/ˈbaɾ/
• Rhymes:-aɾ

Uncertain. Possibly:

1. FromProto-Indo-European*bʰers-(“tip, point”), whence alsoLatinfar(“emmer, spelt”),Proto-Germanic*baraz(“barley”) andProto-Slavic*boršьno(“flour”).^[1][2]
2. Akin toAncient Greekφάρμακον(phármakon,“drug, medicine”), from a tentative commonProto-Indo-European root*bʰer-(“cure with herbs”).^[3][4]
3. FromProto-Indo-European*bʰewH-(“to grow”), whence alsoAncient Greekφυτόν(phutón,“plant”),Old Armenianբոյս(boys,“plant”).^[5]

Sense 4 is likely asemantic loan fromEnglishweed,Frenchherbe orItalianerba.

bar m (pluralbarëra)

1. grass
2. meadow,grassfield

   Synonym:lëndinë

3. (figurative)tasteless food

bar m (indefinitebarna)

1. medicine,medication,herb

   Synonym:ilaç

2. poison(for insects or other animals)
3. (figurative)solution(for a difficult situation)
5. (colloquial)weed,marijuana

• Bardhi, Frang (1635)Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum (overall work in Latin and Albanian),page53: “magnes — aste gna baar ghi hiec becurine vetehei”
• Jungg,G. (1895) “baar”, inFialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary],page3*
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[5],1980, pages95–98
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[6],1980, page98

Internationalism, ultimately fromEnglishbar.

bar m (pluralbare)

1. bar(place serving drinks)

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[7],1980, page98

Internationalism, compareGermanBar,Frenchbar,Englishbar, ultimately fromAncient Greekβάρος(báros).

bar m (pluralbarë)

1. (physics)bar(unit of pressure)

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[8],1980, page98

FromPersianبار.

bar (definite accusativebarı,pluralbarlar)

1. fruit

   Synonym:meyvə

2. crop,harvest,yield

   Synonym:məhsul

3. (figurative)fruit(an end result, effect, or consequence)

   Synonym:bəhrə

4. (archaic)burden

   Synonym:yük

Ultimately fromEnglishbar.

bar (definite accusativebarı,pluralbarlar)

1. bar(a business selling alcoholic drinks)

Internationalism; ultimately fromFrenchbar, fromAncient Greekβάρος(báros).

bar

1. (meteorology)bar(unit of pressure)

• “bar” inObastan.com.

• IPA^(key):(Central,Valencia)[ˈbar]
• IPA^(key):(Balearic)[ˈbar],[ˈba]

Borrowed fromEnglishbar.Doublet ofbarra.

bar m (pluralbars)

1. bar(establishment where alcohol is served)

Borrowed fromAncient Greekβάρος(báros,“weight”).

bar m (pluralbars)

1. bar(unit of measure)

Variant of archaicbare, fromOld Catalanbaare, derived from the nominative case ofbaador, a variant ofbausador (whence Catalanbausador), borrowed from Old Occitan; of uncertain origin but probably related toGermanböse(“evil”).^[1]

bar m orf (masculine and feminine pluralbars)

1. (obsolete)traitorous

bar m orfby sense (pluralbars)

1. (obsolete)traitor

• biar(Luserna)

FromMiddle High Germanwir, fromOld High Germanwir, fromProto-West Germanic*wiʀ, fromProto-Germanic*wīz.

bar

1. (Sette Comuni)we

   Synonym:bandare

   Bar zeinan bèllase. ―We are Italians.

   Bar zeinda. ―We are here.

   Bar habanze galummet. ―We took them.

• “bar” inMartalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974)Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

FromProto-Turkic*bār.

bar

1. there is,there are,indicates existence or possession

   Antonym:yoq

bar

1. second-personsingularimperative ofbarmaq(“to go, to arrive”)

• IPA^(key):/bar/

Borrowed fromEnglishbar.

bar m inan

1. bar(a business selling beverages)
2. bar(thecounter of such a premises)
3. bar(a cabinet used to store alcoholic drinks in a private house or a hotel room)

Borrowing from modern European languages, originally coined based onAncient Greekβάρος(báros,“weight”).

bar m

1. bar, a non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals

• “bar”, inPříruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech),1935–1957
• “bar”, inSlovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech),1960–1971, 1989

FromLatinbibere.

bar (second-person plural presentbaite)

1. todrink

• IPA^(key):/ˈbaːˀr/,[ˈb̥ɑˀ]
• Rhymes:-aːˀr

FromOld Danishbar,Old West Norseberr(with ʀ-umlaut), fromProto-Germanic*bazaz.

bar (neuterbart,plural and definite singular attributivebare)

1. bare,naked
2. sheer,pure

• bare
• barbenet
• barfodet
• barfrost
• barhovedet
• min bare røv

Borrowed fromEnglishbar.

bar c (singular definitebaren,plural indefinitebarer)

1. bar(business licensed to sell intoxicating beverages, counter of such a premises)

FromAncient Greekβάρος(báros,“weight”).

bar c (singular definitebaren,plural indefinitebar)

1. bar(unit of pressure)

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

bar

1. pasttense ofbære

• IPA^(key):/bɑr/
• Hyphenation:bar
• Rhymes:-ɑr

Borrowed fromEnglishbar.

bar m (pluralbars,diminutivebarretje n)

1. abar,counter,drink cabinet
2. abar,pub serving alcohol

• Types of establishment

• → Caribbean Javanese:bar
• → Indonesian:bar

Doublet ofbaar(“bare”), which see for more.Baar continues the Middle Dutch inflected stem,bar the uninflected stem.

bar (comparativebarder,superlativebarst)

1. harsh,tough(used mainly withkoude(“cold”), oromstandigheden(“conditions”))
2. barren,inhospitable,bare
3. crude,grim,unfriendly

bar

1. extremely(only in a negative sense)

• barkoud
• barslecht

FromAncient Greekβάρος(báros,“weight”), coined c. 1900.

bar

1. bar (aunit ofpressure, equal to 100,000pascals)

• kilobar
• megabar
• millibar

• isobaar

• → Indonesian:bar

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols,Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

bar

1. first/third-personsingularpast ofbera

   hettabarikkitil

   this wasn’t possible

• IPA^(key):/baʁ/

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• Rhymes:-aʁ

FromEnglishbar.Doublet ofbarre.

bar m (pluralbars)

1. bar(establishment)
2. bar(counter)

• bar laitier
• pilier de bar
• resto-bar

• → Romanian:bar

FromOld Frenchbars (12th c.), fromFrankish*bars, fromProto-Germanic*barsaz(“perch”). Depending on the age of the borrowing, it may not be directly from Frankish, but from laterOld Dutch (cf. modernDutchbaars). The final-s was interpreted in Old French as the nominative-singular and accusative-plural suffix, leading to the backformationbar.

bar m (pluralbars)

1. bass(fish)

• bar commun
• bar européen

• “bar”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

Borrowed fromEnglishbar.Doublet ofbarra.

bar m (pluralbares)

1. bar,coffee shop,café,pub(an establishment where refreshments and alcohol drinks are served)

Borrowed fromEnglishbar and this fromAncient Greekβάρος(báros,“weight”).

bar m (pluralbares)

1. bar(unit of pressure)

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• Rhymes:-aːɐ̯

FromMiddle High German andOld High Germanbar.

bar (not comparable)

1. bare

bar

1. incash
2. pure

bar [withgenitive]

1. without

   Synonyms:ohne,sonder,außer,ausschließlich

bar (invariable)

1. Obsolete form ofpaar(“a few, couple”).

• “bar” inDigitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “bar” inDuden online

bar

1. Romanization of𐌱𐌰𐍂

• IPA^(key):/paːr/
• Rhymes:-aːr

Borrowed fromEnglishbar (1), fromOld Frenchbarre.

bar m (genitive singularbars,nominative pluralbarir)

1. bar(establishment offering alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises)
2. bar(counter at which such beverages are sold or offered)
3. (by extension) acounter where abuffet or aspecializedkind offood isoffered

Borrowed fromEnglishbar (2), fromAncient Greekβάρος(báros,“weight”).

bar n (genitive singularbars,nominative pluralbör)

1. bar(unit of pressure)

bar

1. first/third-personsingularpastindicativeactive ofbera

• IPA^(key):[ˈbar]
• Hyphenation: Indonesian

FromDutchbar, fromEnglishbar, fromMiddle Englishbarre, fromOld Frenchbarre(“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), fromVulgar Latin*barra, of uncertain origin.

bar (pluralbar-bar)

1. bar,pub: an establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served

FromDutchbar, fromAncient Greekβάρος(báros,“weight”), coined c. 1900.

bar (pluralbar-bar)

1. (physics)bar: a non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level

• “bar” inKamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta:Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
• “bar” inPusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur:Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Borrowed fromEnglishbar, fromAncient Greekβάρος(báros,“weight”).

bar m (genitive singularbair,nominative pluralbair)

1. bar(unit of pressure)